who would certainly have kept the worthy confectioner to the
composition of tarts, and most probably furnished him with the
productions of the Right Honourable Secretary as the means of
conveying those juicy delicacies to a hungry and discerning public.

In the next two reigns, Mr. Parnell shows by what injudicious
measures of the English Government the spirit of Catholic opposition
was gradually formed; for that it did produce powerful effects at a
subsequent period he does not deny; but contends only (as we have
before stated) that these effects have been much overrated, and
ascribed SOLELY to the Catholic religion when other causes have at
least had an equal agency in bringing them about. He concludes with
some general remarks on the dreadful state of Ireland, and the
contemptible folly and bigotry of the English--remarks full of
truth, of good sense, and of political courage. How melancholy to
reflect, that there would be still some chance of saving England
from the general wreck of empires, but that it may not be saved,
because one politician will lose two thousand a year by it, and
another three thousand--a third a place in reversion, and a fourth a
pension for his aunt! Alas! these are the powerful causes which
have always settled the destiny of great kingdoms, and which may
level Old England, with all its boasted freedom, and boasted wisdom,
to the dust. Nor is it the least singular, among the political
phenomena of the present day, that the sole consideration which
seems to influence the unbigoted part of the English people, in this
great question of Ireland, is a regard for the personal feelings of
the Monarch. Nothing is said or thought of the enormous risk to
which Ireland is exposed--nothing of the gross injustice with which
the Catholics are treated--nothing of the lucrative apostasy of
those from whom they experience this treatment: but the only